The NCC is headed by Director General (DG), an army officer of the rank of Lieutenant General who is responsible for the functioning of the NCC in the country through the Directorate General NCC situated in Delhi.
At the state level, the country has been divided into 17 directorates covering all states and union territories. These directorates are headed by the army officer of the rank of Brigadier. Each of the directorate controls two to fourteen Group Head Quarters headed ny the army officer of the rank Colonel. Right now, 95 GpHq and 774 units and around 13 lakhs cadets are there in the network.
NCC has two divisions of all the three services i.e,. Senior Division/Senior Wing for boys/girls from colleges and the Junior Division/Junior Wing for boys/ girls from schools.
In the college or school level, Associated NCC Officers (ANO) looks after the activities of the NCC under the guidance and direction of the commanding officer of the battalion.
The NCC unit of ARG College of Arts and Commerce, has been recognized under the number 5/33 ‘A’ Coy NCC in 33 Karnataka battalion NCC, Davangere. The group head quarters of the battalion is in Bellary under the directorate of Karnataka & Goa.
5/33 ‘A’ Coy NCC was headed by the ANO Lt. K.S. Basavarajappa, Associate Professor, Department of English. The authorized strength of the company is 113. The NCC activities of 5/33 ‘A’ Coy NCC cadets are quite impressive and note worthy. They have been on the same track of their senior (previous) cadets by being the first in all kinds of competitions held at battalion and group level.
In our college NCC was established 1973 NCC 5/33 ‘A’Coy A.R.G College Davangere 30 cadets participated in RD Camp 12 cadets participated TSC Camp 6 cadets participated SPL NIC Camp
They are regular and punctual in attending the regular parades and camps. Their involvement can be found in all the camps like ATC, CATC, DGTREK, NIC, Army attachment, RCTC, Summer, Camel safari, TSC 7& RDC Mavlankar across the country.
After the retirement of Lt. K.S. Basavarajappa, Sri Ramesh Pujar, Department of Sociology has taken charge of NCC unit of the college official from Academic year 2022-23.

In our college NCC was established 1973 NCC 5/33 ‘A’Coy A.R.G College Davangere 30 cadets participated in RD Camp 12 cadets participated TSC Camp 6 cadets participated SPL NIC Camp

I. Motto of NCC: – “Unity and Discipline”
II. Cardinals of NCC Discipline: a. Obey the order with a smile.
b. Be punctual.
c. Work hard and without fuss.
d. Make no excuse and tell no lies.
III. Aims of NCC:
a. To develop qualities of character, courage, comradeship, discipline, leadership, secular outlook, spirit of adventure, sportsmanship and the ideals of selfness service among the youth to make them useful citizens of the country.
b. To create a human resource of organized, trained and motivated youths, to provide leadership in all walks of life including the armed forces and be always available for the service of the nation.
c. To create suitable environment so as to motivate the youth to take up a career in the armed forces.
IV. Training concept and Philosophy:
The training philosophy is based on the following concepts.
** Comprehensive training for Empowerment of youth to earn the Right to Lead.
** Module based training to cover –
a. Character building and competence development.
b. Basic military Training.
c. Social Awareness and service.
** Cadet friendly curriculum eliciting involvement and obviating additional burden on students with instructors acting as facilitators for developing competencies and talents in an individualistic as well as team centered environment.
** Innovative, interesting and safe conduct of training with high degree of visibility to inspire youth, duly supported by appropriate training infrastructure and logistics support for boy and girl cadets.
** Professional training by a pool of dedicated and competent trainers through a well-structured ‘Train the Trainer programme and Refresher programmes for broad based expertise and to enhance trainer skills.
** Progressive Institutionalized training culminating into camps / competition / activities at the National level.
** Use the internet effectively to develop camaraderie and strengthen bonding amongst NCC cadets, energies training and providing ready access to knowledge Bank.
** Inculcate National Integration through Regional and National Integration Camps.
** Offer a global perspectives and exposure through Youth Exchange Programme.
** Regular appraisal to identify redundancies and deficiencies in the organization and curriculum for suitable remedial measures.
V. Objectives of NCC Activities:-
The activities of the NCC are conducted with the following objectives
** To train volunteer youth to become confident, committed and competent leaders in all walks of life.
** To enhance the awareness level of cadets for being responsible citizens of the country.
** To provide opportunities and encourage cadets to enhance their knowledge/ awareness levels on life/soft/communication skills, character building/ personality development.
** To conduct activities to provide value based contributions towards society in terms of social and community development.
** To undertake adventure activates for development of leadership qualities and risk taking abilities.
** To provide a platform to launch ‘good – will ambassadors’ cadets’ project the image of the country overseas.
** To provide an environment to motivate cadets to take up a career in the Armed Forces.
Unique Features:
• It is not a matter of exaggeration to say that the representation of cadet Harsha C. Annegeri ,RDC 2010 was selected as Cultural Ambassadorto Dhaka, Bangladesh through YEP.
• Cadet Ravi G.M (12/83847) was the only one to represent our directorate in the NIC at IMA. Dehra Dun in 2013.